TP-link Deco M5 vs Eero vs Luma vs Google

Competition of mesh home wifi systems is very tight in the era of no more range extender but whole home wifi system. Each of networking vendor offers a specific whole home wifi system model including Netgear, Linksys, Ubiquiti, Google, Luma, Eero and TP-link.

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TP-link Deco M5

Features comparison

Wifi comparison

TP-link Deco M5

The new introduction of new model of whole home wifi system by TP-link is Deco M5 that is supposed to compete with other similar products including Eero, Luma and Google. There few models have been around in the market with higher speed including Netgear Orbi; Linksys Velop wifi system, tree models offered by Ubiquiti with Amplifi mesh series including Ubiquiti Amplifi HD home wifi system and still more.

Two bands AC1300

Velop and Orbi are two models of three band mesh home wifi system, the others are two band models including this TP-link Deco M5. Deco is based on wireless AC1300 instead of AC1200 like other existing models including Luma, Google and Eero.

With Deco M5, the system delivers dual band wifi speeds of up to 867Mbps @5Ghz band and up to 400Mbps @2.4Ghz band. With the three pack, they will cover up to 4500 sq ft where each Deco M5 can cover up to 1,800 Sq ft of your home. Deco cover longer distance than Eero, and is slightly the same as Google mesh home.

TP-Link ARTTM

TP-Link ARTTM stands for Adaptive Routing Technology, a system that automatically chooses the best path for each of the device to connect to the best connection to Deco unit. It works like based on complex metric calculations in modern routing technology.

TP-link Deco M5

Home Care

When you compare Deco with Luma whole home wifi system regarding internet threat treatment, Luma comes with built-in hacker protection. While TP-link Deco comes with built-in Home Care powered by Trend Micro (an anti-virus and internet threat protection hat cost $360 value). It will protect all connected devices to your home network against any internet threats.

Hardware

TP-link seriously designs this Deco M5 to be able to compete with other similar products that have been around in the market for a while. The hardware is built up powered by Quad core processor, so does Luma. Eero is powered by 1.0Ghz dual core processor.

Deco M5, Google, Eero are embedded with two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Features

Like other mesh home wifi systems, they are all based on recent wireless AC (802.11ac) standard even though they are might be in different network segment. As mentioned earlier that TP-link introduces Deco M5 by completing richer features that other similar products are absent.

Compared with other competing devices including Eero, Luma and Google, Deco M5 have the following features:

Wifi features

AP Steering

Band Steering

Ease of use

Mobile app

Bluetooth onboard

Speedtest

Device list

Easy guest wifi sharing

Software security

Firewall security

Parental control (time restrictive)

Auto Firm Ware update

Most of mesh home wifi systems are easy to deploy with the included free mobile apps, and can work stand alone. And even Ubiquiti Amplifi mesh point that works as the satellite of the Ubiquiti Amplifi HD wifi system can work universally as the range extender of third party wireless router.

Richer features

TP-link is smart, introducing the mesh home wifi model in the last time when other vendors have released the products in the market. TP-link completes Deco M5 with some features that other competing products are absent.

Take a look the following table to help you understand what features TP-link add features to Deco that might be absent to others.

Table 1 Deco vs Eero vs Luma vs Google Feature differences

Model

Deco M5

Eero

Luma

Google

MU-MIMO

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Beamforming

Yes

No

No

Yes

Location assistant

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Network scanning

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Router-based antivirus

Yes

No

Cloud-based

No

QoS by device

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

QoS by application

Yes

No

No

Yes

Device activity report

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

URL filter

Yes

No

Yes

No

Monthly usage report

Yes

No

No

Yes

See that TP-link Deco M5 adds more features, richer features compared with Eero, Luma and Google.

Wifi and speeds

TP-link Deco is based on AC1300, now compare with other similar products – comparison in wifi technology, wifi and wired speeds as shown as the following comparison table.

Deco, Google, eero and Luma are based on two band wifi, while Velop and Orbi are three band mesh wifi system. The wired connection is based available Ethernet ports each unit has. See that Orbi has more Ethernet ports compared with others.

I repeat …MU-MIMO it is just a common terminology….some companies approach more specificly for describing theirs products….and you could see it as 2×2 or in some cases 2×3 and it means the same MU-mimo but in more correct maner.